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GRAPHIC: Proposals and Results

President Bush has proposed dozens of initiatives in his six State of the Union addresses. Ahead of the State of the Union in his final year in office, we take a look at some of his notable proposals and how they've turned out. Below each photo is a "tag cloud." The size of each word or term is proportional to the number of times Bush used a form of it in each speech.

GRAPHIC: Proposals and Results

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